The area surrounding the Heavenly Court's Supply Bureau was completely filled with restaurants. From the outside, the bureau's office looked like a Maitreya Bodhisattva sitting amidst a pool of wine and a forest of meat.
Wang Yao entered the Heavenly Court's General Supply Bureau, which, like other government offices, had a gate that opened wide. He inquired with the stern-faced gatekeeper, bypassed the screen wall blocking the gate, and arrived at a spacious courtyard.
He walked straight to the wing room on the right side of the courtyard, where he saw a wooden sign nailed to the pillar in front of the wing room's door, which read "Emergency Supplies Application Office".
Upon entering the room, he saw a row of black wooden counters. A fairy sat behind the counters, holding an iPad and looking at it intently. Wang Yao didn't even notice her when he entered the room.
"Hello, I would like to apply for a Matchmaker interface board."
Wang Yao took out the fairy's identity token and handed it to the fairy. He glanced at the content on the fairy's iPad. It seemed to be showing a TV drama. Two handsome men were there with tears streaming down their faces, talking intensely about something.
The fairy raised her head, and Wang Yao was astonished to find that her face was also covered in tears. She stared at Wang Yao for a moment, then quickly paused her iPad. With a gentle wave of her hand across her face, the tears disappeared, and her face returned to its smooth state.
"What do you want to apply for?" The fairy didn't take the fairy identity token that Wang Yao handed over, but just sat there and asked in a cold tone.
"The Matchmaker interface version," Wang Yao said.
"The Matchmaker?" The fairy opened a thick ledger on her right with a questioning look in her voice, carefully checked the entries, and then looked through the ledger for a while before looking up at Wang Yao.
"The Matchmaker belongs to the Human Realm Office. You should apply through the office. It's not proper for you to come here on your own," the fairy said.
"That's right, I was called upon by the Heavenly Tribulation Responding Leadership Group. This was requested by He Xiangu, who asked me to come directly to receive it, for fear of delaying the tribulation response work." Wang Yao hurriedly explained with a smile, and then gestured to her the fairy token in his hand.
"He Xiangu?" The fairy took the token from Wang Yao's hand, examined it for a moment, and then used the token to dial a phone on her left.
"Hello? Director Tang, a fairy has come to my place. She claims to be the Old Man of the Moon and has taken He Xiangu's identity token. She wants to apply for an interface panel... Oh, I see, okay... okay..." The fairy kept glancing at Wang Yao while making the call, and then hung up the phone after a while.
"Could you please come with me for a moment?"
The fairy stood up, walked around the counter, and beckoned Wang Yao to go to the inner room. She pushed open the wooden door of the inner room and saw an eight-immortal table. There were some antique-style display shelves around the room, on which were some ornaments that looked very valuable.
"Please have a seat here for a moment. Director Tang will bring the interface panel you requested shortly." The fairy greeted Wang Yao, turned and went out the door, and returned a moment later with a cup of tea.
Wang Yao took a small sip and felt a refreshing fragrance. Although it didn't have the magic of Liu Chu's breakthrough immortal tea, it still invigorated Wang Yao and made his body feel incredibly healthy.
"Is this Brother Wang Yao? I was unaware of your presence and failed to greet you properly. I hope you will forgive me!" Wang Yao had only been sitting for a short while, and had only taken two or three sips of his tea, when a clear voice called out from outside the door.
Immediately afterwards, a fat immortal with a big smile pushed open the door and squeezed in, carrying a black travel bag in his hand.
Hearing this person's call, Wang Yao was stunned for a moment. He didn't have many friends in Taiqing Immortal City, so he was still a little confused about this chubby little brother who had fallen from somewhere.
The fat immortal placed the black travel bag on the octagonal table, smiled at Wang Yao, and opened the bag, taking out three interface panels and a bunch of small trinkets wrapped in plastic. Wang Yao didn't recognize what any of them were.
"Excuse me, Brother Wang, please wait a moment, this will be right..." The fat immortal said, deftly tearing open the plastic packaging of those little gadgets. Wang Yao found that the slightly larger one was a connecting wire with three ends. One end had a small plug, while the other two ends had metal wires protruding.
The fat immortal tore open two smaller bags, which looked like tea bags in the human world, and took out two black tape-like objects from them. He carefully stuck them on the exposed metal wires of the connecting line, and then held them close to Wang Yao.
“Brother Wang, your interface board is destroyed. The new interface board can only download data from your divine treasure. It’s okay, it won’t affect your immortal body…” The fat immortal said as he attached the two ends of the connecting cable with black tape to Wang Yao’s left and right temples respectively.
Wang Yao knew that this was a panel being prepared for him, so he secretly added a "good person" to his name and let the fat man do as he pleased. The fat immortal pasted the two ends of the connecting cable and then inserted the other end into a new panel.
Suddenly, a progress bar appeared on the interface screen and began to slowly slide forward.
"Don't worry about him, he'll be fine in a bit." The fat immortal glanced at the interface screen, then plopped down on a stool next to the octagonal table and said to Wang Yao with a smile.
"Lord Yue Lao, I find it quite strange. Director Qiu from the Liuan Committee called me earlier, saying that you might come to pick up the interface board. He forgot to bring your identity token and asked me to make things convenient for you. But I didn't expect that you would come and bring He Xiangu's identity token?"
The fat immortal asked with a smile, his eyes full of curiosity.
"Who are you...?" Wang Yao looked at the fat immortal in astonishment. He had only come to pick up the interface board and had all the formalities. Why was this guy asking him so many questions?
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